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Ota Konrád has published an article in the Journal of Family History titled "When Is It Violence? Social Recognition of Domestic Violence in Czech Society Under State Socialism, 1948–1989." The study examines domestic violence in socialist Czechoslovakia as a social phenomenon shaped by specific historical, cultural, and social conditions.
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Výzkumné centrum Small (Nation-)States within/without Empires and Unions (IMS FSV UK) srdečně zve na křest knihy Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe: Small State Responses to Economic Changes, 1960s–1980s, jejížmi editory jsou Adrian Brisku, Martin Gumiela a Lars Fredrik Stöcker.
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Yesterday, on September 15, 2025, Tereza Juhászová, PhD candidate in Modern History, successfully defended her dissertation with the highest distinction (Summa Cum Laude). Her thesis, entitled “Navigating Turbulent Times: A Microhistory of a Multilingual Small Town in Mid-20th Century Slovakia”, was prepared within a cotutelle program between our Institute and the University of Regensburg, under the supervision of Prof. Kateřina Králová and Prof. Ulf Brunnbauer. The defense committee was chaired by Prof. Guido Hausmann, with Prof. Pavel Kolář and Prof. Chad Bryant serving as reviewers.
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The Institute of International Studies, FSV UK, is pleased to welcome Natalia Dziadyk as a Visiting Fellow within the joint fellowship between the Research Centre Ukraine in a Changing Europe and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna.
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Last week, four RCMS members – Kateřina Králová, Tereza Juhászová, Ivana Koutníková and Claudia Macey, joined colleagues from Warsaw, Berlin, Vienna and Budapest at the CENTRAL Workshop 2025: Materialities of Memory in Central, East and South-East Europe!
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In her interview for UK Forum magazine Kateřina Králová, head of the Research Center for Memory Studies, not only reflects on the recently held international conference on memory studies in Prague but, together with editor Jitka Jiřičková she also opens up a number of other topics—from the challenges of contemporary research in the field of memory, through the problematic historical illusion of peace in Europe, to the need for dialogue and interdisciplinary international cooperation.
